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I’m pretty sure people are voting where they’d live. As far as a city being an asset and having greatness I agree with you. But given the age group of this forum many are either afraid of cities or don’t want to send their kids to an urban school system. Sorry Madison and Litchfield, I’d sacrifice you for New Haven.
An interesting way to mix it up would be categories as the tournament has gotten boring and the same general towns will always win.
Best food
Best culture
Most charming
Best shoreline
Best place to raise family
Etc.
Stylo, you have some great points here. I think I will format it a little differently this time. It will likely be by county and then the top 2 from each county after few rounds will make the next rounds. That will make it more interesting. The fact is though, that in the past, I have never been so specific on what in the towns they should vote for. Some people here thought about which town they would rather live in, but I didn't mean for it to always be the case that way. Like read my previous post above with the Fairfield vs Old Saybrook tie last time.
Great ideas here, but if we were to do best shoreline, more than half the towns don't even have a coast. Charming would be a good idea. Raise a family, possibly but many people will be single on here and might not be able to make that call well.
And/or maybe ranked-choice voting? I agree that early eliminations have the potential to leave some good towns at the bottom of the heap.
The main problem with ranked-choice voting is I feel that would take away much of the fun and all the interesting eliminations. And I would have to really think hard of a way to do that, because it would likely just be rank all the towns one round and it's over. And how would I be able to keep score for all that to determine the outcomes? Not really easy to do a tournament that way to be honest.
OK Guys, well I have 3 more days to think about the format, and I'll let you know all when I start it on Thursday! Stay tuned. I will likely even post a link here to the new forum in case anyone doesn't find it automatically although I assume most of you will!
I am also hoping, that with this whole coronavirus going on we can get a lot more voters. This honestly might be one of the best times for a tournament like this! Can't Wait!
Another idea might be to first split the towns into groups of similar towns and have them only faceoff among each other until the quarterfinals.
The state splits them up like this for education purposes: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SDE/Gr...ndxa.pdf?la=en - obviously not each town is listed there because some are regional, but that could be a good starting point.
Another idea might be to first split the towns into groups of similar towns and have them only faceoff among each other until the quarterfinals.
The state splits them up like this for education purposes: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SDE/Gr...ndxa.pdf?la=en - obviously not each town is listed there because some are regional, but that could be a good starting point.
That's a really good idea actually. Counties are honestly somewhat arbitrary but here similar towns are facing off. I like it.
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